Tag: Import Duties

  • Benzoate Blow

    Brussels imposes provisional anti-dumping duties of up to 116.4 percent on Chinese sodium benzoate, handing a victory to complainant Lanxess and opening a new front in an increasingly crowded EU-China trade defence docket. BRUSSELS, July 31, 2026 The European Commission has imposed provisional anti-dumping duties of between 57.6 percent and 116.4 percent on imports of…

  • 100% Drug Duty

    Section 232 tariffs on patented pharmaceuticals took effect Friday for the industry’s largest importers, opening a high stakes test of whether a wall of duties can pull drug manufacturing back to American soil. WASHINGTON, Aug. 2, 2026. The steepest tariff ever applied to the American medicine cabinet is now being collected at United States ports…

  • New 301 Regime

    The in-transit grace period has closed on Washington’s forced labor tariffs, locking in duties of 10 to 12.5 percent on imports from 60 economies as Congress stirs and the courts loom WASHINGTON, July 29, 2026 The last escape hatch closed at one minute past midnight on Monday. As of 12:01 a.m. Eastern Time on July…

  • SACU Drill Duty

    South Africa’s new 20% tariff on rock drill parts takes effect across the customs union, testing localisation ambitions against mining cost pressures. PRETORIA, July 29, 2026 – Parts for rock drilling equipment entering the Southern African Customs Union now face a 20% ad valorem customs duty, after the South African Revenue Service gazetted an amendment…

  • India Coke Duty

    India locks in five-year anti-dumping duties on low ash metallurgical coke from six countries, deepening a public rift between its steel and finance ministries. NEW DELHI, July 28, 2026 – India has imposed definitive anti-dumping duties on imports of low ash metallurgical coke from six countries for a period of five years, closing out a…

  • EU Duty Blitz

    Brussels hits Chinese benzyl alcohol and sodium benzoate with steep provisional anti-dumping duties, opening a new chemicals front in Europe’s widening trade-defence campaign. BRUSSELS, July 29, 2026 – Provisional anti-dumping duties of up to 116.4 percent on two workhorse industrial chemicals from China took effect across the European Union today, the latest and most pointed…

  • Brazil Steel Up

    GECEX Resolution 941 lifts import duties on seven wire, fencing and construction steel lines to a flat 25 percent for twelve months BRASILIA, July 28, 2026 – Brazil has tightened the screws on steel imports once again. On 23 July the Executive Management Committee of the Foreign Trade Chamber, known as GECEX/Camex, adopted Resolution No.…

  • Coke Duty Row

    A definitive anti-dumping duty on low ash metallurgical coke has split India’s government down the middle, with the Steel Ministry formally asking the Finance Ministry to scrap a trade remedy that domestic coke producers fought hard to win. International Trade Desk | Peacock Tariff Consulting NEW DELHI, July 28 – India’s simmering conflict over anti-dumping…

  • Jakarta Waiver

    Indonesia scraps import duties on aircraft spare parts and on LPG bound for petrochemical plants in a second-half stimulus push, handing cost relief to airlines and plastics producers just as new United States tariffs begin to bite across Southeast Asia. International Trade Desk | Peacock Tariff Consulting JAKARTA, July 28 – Indonesia has eliminated import…

  • Duty Handoff

    The in-transit grace period for the new Section 301 duties ends today, closing out a frantic week in which one American tariff regime died, another was born, and importers were left to reconcile refunds, stacking rules, and a calendar full of deadlines. WASHINGTON, July 28, 2026 For American importers, Tuesday marks the end of the…